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Liviu Librescu (August 18, 1930 – April 16, 2007) was a Romanian-born Israeli professor, whose most recent position was Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. ....
......At age 76, Librescu was among the thirty-two people who were murdered in the Virginia Tech massacre on April 16, 2007. ..... Librescu held the door of his classroom shut ... although he was shot through the door, he was able to prevent the gunman from entering the classroom until his students had escaped through the windows. A number of Librescu's students have called him a hero because of his actions, with one student, Asael Arad, saying that all the professor's students "lived because of him". Librescu's son, Joe, said he had received e-mails from several students who said he had saved their lives and regarded him as a hero. His death came on Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel.
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